Where can I get Frontpage Server Extensions for Windows XP?
I"m still, sigh, dependent on FrontPage. I run FrontPage 98, the application went down the toilet after that version. I need to install the extensions on XP. This page is a good resource for that.
Saturday, January 15, 2005
Friday, January 14, 2005
Technorati Tags: another small step towards the semantic web
Technorati: Using Technorati Tags
We seem to be approach the ancient vision of a semantic web one inch at a time. It feels like evolution in action.
This isn't practical for blogger yet.
We seem to be approach the ancient vision of a semantic web one inch at a time. It feels like evolution in action.
This isn't practical for blogger yet.
Mac mini -- some more details via the product manager and the usual rumors
Clearing up confusion about the Mac mini - The Unofficial Apple Weblog - apple.weblogsinc.com
Macintouch has some interesting discussions on where the Mac Mini may go. Some are trying to make it a home server (presumably w/ an external drive, otherwise the wee internal drive will melt). Others note that, despite the absence of various I/O jacks there are an interesting range of firewire peripherals that may allow it to become a media center. Still others speculate that "Asteroid" is more than a GarageBand breakout box, but is a peripheral that makes a Mac mini the center of a home entertaintment system. Ahh, Apple is such fun.
I spoke with the product manager for the Mac mini today to clarify a few facts.
1. Yes, it will boot headless, meaning with no display or video device connected, enabling you to have what I like to call an iServe.
2. While it is strongly recommended that you only have an Apple Authorized Service Provider crack it open and install RAM, hard drives, Airport and Bluetooth, it will NOT void your warranty if you do it yourself. As is standard operating procedure, however, anything you break while attempting anything on your own is not Apple’s responsibility and will not be covered under warranty. I think that is pretty much common sense.
3. Airport and Bluetooth can, in fact, be added after purchase. AirPort Extreme card and Bluetooth module attach to the Mac mini’s motherboard via a special connector and will be sold together as a kit for $129.
4. RAM is the most accessible upgrade once you get the case off. That much is clear from the picture.
5. All upgrades other than RAM are not as accessible, but accessing them won’t void your warranty, with list item #2 above in mind.
6. The reason the TOP of the Mac mini doesn’t glow and pulse (this is my only gripe so far) is that there wasn’t enough room to light it once the optical drive went in :)
Macintouch has some interesting discussions on where the Mac Mini may go. Some are trying to make it a home server (presumably w/ an external drive, otherwise the wee internal drive will melt). Others note that, despite the absence of various I/O jacks there are an interesting range of firewire peripherals that may allow it to become a media center. Still others speculate that "Asteroid" is more than a GarageBand breakout box, but is a peripheral that makes a Mac mini the center of a home entertaintment system. Ahh, Apple is such fun.
Gmail: View by RSS client again available
Gmail: Help Center
In November Gmail briefly introduced Syndication of one's email inbox. This has now been made widely available.
There's some security risk here. If you use a web based RSS client, like Bloglines, your email pw is available to anyone that hacks Bloglines. Safest for a local RSS client. In fact, at the moment, Bloglines doesn't support this feed. It does work in Firefox though (go to bookmarks, from bookmarks menu choose live bookmark, enter url. It displays in Bookmarks drop down menu as a folder in which each inbox item shows up as a bookmark.).
In November Gmail briefly introduced Syndication of one's email inbox. This has now been made widely available.
You can view Gmail messages in your aggregator by subscribing to a new channel. Enter https://gmail.google.com/gmail/feed/atom in the ‘URL’ field, and submit your Gmail address and password.
Please keep in mind that Gmail messages don't appear in your aggregator unless there are unread messages in your inbox.
There's some security risk here. If you use a web based RSS client, like Bloglines, your email pw is available to anyone that hacks Bloglines. Safest for a local RSS client. In fact, at the moment, Bloglines doesn't support this feed. It does work in Firefox though (go to bookmarks, from bookmarks menu choose live bookmark, enter url. It displays in Bookmarks drop down menu as a folder in which each inbox item shows up as a bookmark.).
Thursday, January 13, 2005
Maps based on Flash
Maps, All Interactive Like | Metafilter
It's only taken 10 years to start to get away from GIF or JPG maps. These vector maps are based on Flash. I'd prefer to see SVG maps, but them's the breaks. PDF work well. Anything is better than GIF/JPG for maps.
It's only taken 10 years to start to get away from GIF or JPG maps. These vector maps are based on Flash. I'd prefer to see SVG maps, but them's the breaks. PDF work well. Anything is better than GIF/JPG for maps.
Multiple Libraries in iPhoto 5?
Ars Technica: Macworld 2005 keynote coverage: "but multiple libraries have come to iPhoto in 05"
Damn. I should have watched the darned keynote. Noone else has mentioned this most critical feature.
Damn. I should have watched the darned keynote. Noone else has mentioned this most critical feature.
The first Mini Mac review worth anything (ars technica)
The Mac mini preview
This is a funny, slightly scatological and somewhat impish review. It's also very good, and done by someone who really knows their stuff -- including speculation on whether Apple would revise Tiger's video infrastructure to accomodate the low end Mac Mini video specs.
Bottom line, this is a really positive review.
If, as Apple states when they consign rumor sites to the ninth plane of legal hell, innovation is the DNA of the company, then it must be fossilized. Low-margin, low-tech, white box, red state PCs have been around since before Michael Dell first declared Apple doomed, so what is the big deal about Apple finally doing what most PC manufacturers have been busy losing money at for years?...
...It's clear that the xMac [jf: Mac Mini] performs considerably faster than both my iBook, which cost me $200 more than an xMac, and nearly as fast as my wife's PowerBook, which cost four times as much and is less than a year-old...
...It’s not about the computer. It’s about the effect, or rather the affect. The “y” of xMac, or Mac mini, is another question: why not Windows? For people in the real world, the Mac mini, with the included software, does everything people need, while not doing things they don't need, like becoming infected with malware.
And the Mac mini does it at a price, US$499, competitive with the charcoal turds produced by more successful PC vendors. It's taken twenty years, but Apple may have come full circle at last.
This is a funny, slightly scatological and somewhat impish review. It's also very good, and done by someone who really knows their stuff -- including speculation on whether Apple would revise Tiger's video infrastructure to accomodate the low end Mac Mini video specs.
Bottom line, this is a really positive review.
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